Definitions for wake-robin

wake-robin wake-rob·in

Spelling: [weyk-rob-in]
IPA: /ˈweɪkˌrɒb ɪn/

Wake-Robin is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 466 anagrams from letters in wake-robin (-abeiknorw).

Definitions for wake-robin

noun

  1. the cuckoopint.
  2. any of various plants belonging to the genus Trillium, native to eastern North America, of the lily family, as T. erectum, having rank-smelling purple, yellow, or white flowers.

Origin of wake-robin

First recorded in 1520-30

Examples for wake-robin

In shady places the ferns were unfolding in company with Solomon's-seal, wake-robin, the lady's-slipper, and the painted trillium.

Fresh green heads of bosky ferns and wake-robin were pushing up through the old mats of last year's foliage.

Mr. John Burroughs says his sign is the wake-robin, or trillium.

From fresh arum tubers (cuckow-pint or wake-robin), 1⁄2 lb.; sugar, 21⁄2 lbs.

It was published in 1867, preceding "wake-robin" by four years.

Mr. Burroughs, in wake-robin, mentions having found two nests, and gives us to understand that he saw only the female birds.

Word Value for wake-robin
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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